Tattooed Book Review has an excerpt of Jessica Aspen’s The Dark Huntsman.
Want to check out Meljean Brook’s Iron Seas series? The novella, The Blushing Bounder, is currently $.99 and more of a prequel to the series, so you wouldn’t be jumping into the middle of anything.
Chloe Neill has posted the first chapter of the seventh Chicagoland Vampires novel, Wild Things (2/4/14), and if you want more, then grab a cop of Howling For You, which has the entire first two chapters.
Suvudu has an excerpt from Peter Cline’s new Ex novel, Ex-Purgatory, which releases.
Gollancz is sharing a deleted scene from Chloe Neill’s new novella, Howling For You, featuring our favorite tiger.
Tor is offering a couple of their titles for $2.99 until Jan 31st: Personal Demons by Lisa Desrocher, Silver by Rhiannon Held, An Echo Through the Snow by Andrea Thalasinos, An Irish Country Girl by Patrick Taylor, and One Second After by William Forstchen.
George RR Martin has posted an excerpt from Those About to Die by David Anthony Durham, which will be in the Wild Cards novel Lowball, which releases Nov 1, 2014.
Cynthia Eden has posted an excerpt from her new release, Eternal Hunter.
Jeaniene Frost has posted a scene from her last Night Huntress novel, Up from the Grave, which releases on the 28th, as well as a few teaser lines.
Yasmine Galenorn has posted a snippet from her next Otherworld novel, Crimson Veil, which releases at the end of the month.
Lauren Dane has posted an excerpt from her second Rowan Summerwaite novel, Blade to the Keep, which is currently out.
Author Appearances:
- Alma Katsu, author of The Descent – All Things Urban Fantasy, Falcata Times,
- Caridad Pineiro, author of Die for Love – Amberkatze’s Book Blog
- Carrie Vaughn, author of Kitty in the Underworld – My Shelf Confessions
- Chloe Neill, author of Howling For You – The Saucy Wenches Book Club, Vampire Book Club
- Christine D’Abo, author of Gilded Hearts – Dark Faerie Tales
- Jaye Wells, author of Dirty Magic – The Big Thrill, Hide and Create
- Jeffe Kennedy, author of Rogue’s Possession – What the Cat Read
- KD Pryor, author of The Portal’s Choice – Bias Wonderland
- Kelley Armstrong, author of Brazen – Rickey
- Laura Vandervoort, actress from Bitten – Rickey, io9,
- Lisa Shearin, author of The Grendel Affair – Team Tynga’s Reviews
- Molly Harper, author of How to Run with a Naked Werewolf – Bitten by Books
- Natalie Damschroder, author of Sunroper – Urban Fantasy Investigations
- Sarah Pinborough, author of Mayhem – All Things Urban Fantasy
- Saranna DeWylde, author of Claimed by the Wolf – Paranormal Romance
- Snorri Kristjansson, author of Swords of Good Men – Suvudu
- Stephanie Julian, author of An Indecent Proposition – Fiction Vixen
- Tiffany Allee, author of Temptation by Fire – Amberkatze’s Book Blog
There are always fabulous covers popping up and I simply can’t post them all, so here’s a select few that have caught my eye. To see them all, head over to facebook, where I’ve added them to the January album for your viewing pleasure. Also, here’s two albums that might catch your interest: 2014: Graphic Novels and Starz OUTLANDER.
Since we’re on the topic of covers, it’s the beginning of a new year, so I’m going to start doing something a little different with cover reveals. I love looking at all the fantastic covers and showing them off, but there are a bunch of other sites who already do a fabulous job of that, and I’ve begun to wonder why I duplicate that effort. So I will still be adding covers to the Facebook albums, but I probably won’t be adding as many as I did in the past. Some of those albums have over 100 covers. But I don’t want everyone to miss out on all the other fabulous covers, that while may not catch my eye, may catch yours. So here’s a few links to some pretty awesome covers: Wicked Scribes (Jan 9th, Jan 12th, ), All Things Urban Fantasy, Amy K, Addicted to Heroines, Tez Says (Jan 8th, Jan 10th), and Lurv a la Mode.
If you’re itching for tonight’s premier of Bitten, the television series adapted from Kelley Armstrong’s Woman of the Otherworld series, and don’t mind a little knowledge before hand, then head over to IGN where they have a review of the first episode, Summons. Fair warning though, they’re not exactly thrilled, but they also start it off by comparing it to Twilight. I definitely have mix feelings. It has NOTHING in common with Twilight, so why they even thought to compare the two is beyond me. It makes me wonder if they had twilightesque expectations and when it didn’t meet them, they automatically wrote it off. As a fan of the series, and Elena and Clay specifically, I’m curious if they’ve read the books or if the show is their first experience with Armstrong’s fantastic story.
Speaking of fabulously new television shows, while Starz has not premiered Outlander yet, it is already thinking about a second season, which seems very possible. In a discussion with Deadline, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht said “I would be shocked if we didn’t do the second book.” This makes me extremely happy. *grin* More importantly, has everyone seen the first trailer? It was revealed at this past weekends Outlander Invades LA event (aka the Fan Gathering). And if you haven’t read Outlander yet, now would be the perfect time to do so. The ebook is currently priced at $1.99.
Contests:
GoodReads is giving away:
- 12 copies of Kristen Simmon’s Three – ends Jan 16th
- 4 copies of Marie Brennan’s The Tropic of Serpents – ends Feb 4th.
- 11 copies of Mindee Arnett’s The Nightmare Dilemma – ends Feb 3rd.
Don’t forget to check out all the author appearances. Quite a few of them have giveaways as well.
